In an effort to ‘expose and destroy’ the terrorist network, the US has sanctioned ISIS financial facilitators.

In an effort to “expose and destroy” the network of “violent extremists,” the US sanctioned five persons involved in an ISIS network of money facilitators working throughout Indonesia, Syria, and Turkey on Monday.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the Department of the Treasury has identified a network of five Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) financial facilitators operating in Indonesia, Syria, and Turkey. The five people had “played a crucial role in enabling extremist travel to Syria and other ISIS-controlled regions.”

The network also collected funds in Indonesia and Turkey to support ISIS efforts in Syria-based displaced person camps, according to the Treasury Department. Some of the funds were used to pay for smuggling children out of the camps and delivering them to ISIS foreign fighters as potential recruits.

The designation comes as the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS holds its 16th meeting of the Counter ISIS Finance Group. The CIFG, which includes roughly 70 nations and international organizations and coordinates actions against ISIS financial support networks throughout the world, is co-led by the United States, Italy, and Saudi Arabia.

The Biden administration hopes to “identify and undermine a worldwide ISIS facilitation network that has supported ISIS recruiting, particularly of vulnerable youngsters in Syria,” according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

As part of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Brian E. Nelson announced Monday that the US “is dedicated to denying ISIS the capacity to raise and transfer cash across numerous countries.”

Residents of “displaced people camps” in Syria, according to the Treasury Department, include individuals who have been displaced by ISIS, as well as ISIS militants, sympathizers, and their relatives.

The Treasury Department said Monday that “ISIS sympathizers in over 40 countries have sent money to ISIS-linked individuals in these camps in support of ISIS’s future resurgence,” noting that Al-Hawl is the largest displaced persons camp in northeast Syria, holding up to 70,000 people, the majority of whom are women and children.

Dwi Dahlia Susanti, an ISIS financial facilitator since at least 2017; Rudy Heryadi, who advised extremist associates about possible travel to “ISIS-dominated areas, including Afghanistan, Egypt, and other parts of Africa and Yemen;” and Ari Kardian, who has been charged by Indonesian authorities with facilitating the travel of Indonesians to Syria to join ISIS.

The people are being targeted “for substantially assisting, sponsoring, or providing financial, material, or technological assistance for, or commodities or services to or in support of, ISIS,” according to the Treasury Department.